High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). "Making-work-pay" policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...

Ziel der vom Bundestag beschlossenen Wohngeldreform, die am 1. Januar 2016 in Kraft treten soll, ist es, das Wohngeld zu erhöhen und den Empfängerkreis auszuweiten. Das IAB legt hiermit Simulationsrechnungen zur Abschätzung der Effekte der Wohngeldreform auf Einkommensverläufe, die Zahl der...

Bei der Erfassung der materiellen Lebensbedingungen von Personen und Haushalten, die Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende nach dem SGB II beziehen, stellt der Lebensstandard- oder Deprivationsansatz eine wichtige Alternative gegenüber der Betrachtung der Einkommenssituation dar. Die...

Der Bezug von SGB-II-Leistungen ist für die Betroffenen häufig von langer Dauer. Etwa eine Million Leistungsbezieher ist zwischen 2005 und 2014 ununterbrochen auf Leistungen der Grundsicherung angewiesen. Eine Sequenzmusteranalyse auf Basis detaillierter Prozessdaten gibt Aufschluss über...

Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...

Parliament is the place where politicians make laws to set the policy direction of countries. Non-involvement of different voices such as gender, race and ethnicity in policy decisions may create an inequality in policy-making. Regarding gender, previous literature suggests that women and men...

"Child care policy in Korea revolves around financial support for all households with young children. However, the effectiveness of the approach varies among households. For example, high-income, highly educated families are less likely to use the subsidies to place their children in child care...

The authors investigate the desirability of income taxes when the objective is to mitigate wasteful conspicuous consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior. They consider the joint role of pre-tax wage inequality and of social norms determining how social status is assigned. They...

Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...

Cash transfers are a popular and successful means of tackling household vulnerability and promoting human capital investment. They can also reduce child labor, especially when it is a response to household vulnerability. But if not properly designed, cash transfers that promote children's...